Julie Johnson was projected to win her election Tuesday for Texas’s thirty second Congressional District, making historical past as the primary brazenly LGBTQ particular person to symbolize Texas in Congress and the primary elected from anyplace within the South, the place laws concentrating on LGBTQ rights is essentially concentrated.
Johnson, 57, handily defeated her opponent, Republican Darrell Day, in accordance with Resolution Desk HQ. She’s going to succeed outgoing Rep. Colin Allred (D-Texas), is trying to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).
Johnson made a reputation for herself within the Texas state legislature collaborating and forging friendships with lawmakers on either side of the aisle. “I’m willing to work with any member on good policy. Not all Democrats author good bills, and not all Republicans author bad bills,” she mentioned in an interview with The Hill final 12 months.
She additionally strongly advocated in opposition to laws concentrating on homosexual and transgender Texans and, throughout her first time period within the state Home in 2019, helped type the Legislature’s first LGBTQ caucus, now one of many nation’s largest.
